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Today we’re happy to formally announce our technical partnership with New Relic, providers of powerful application performance monitoring tools. New Relic is now able to monitor the Play Framework, and we’re both working together to expand monitoring capabilities for other Typesafe technologies down the road.

The eventsourced library developed by Martin Krasser for Eligotech has grown into a full-fledged and robust solution for Actor persistence, offering support for reliable command- and event-sourcing, configurable message delivery guarantees, state snapshots and recovery. We are excited to announce that Martin is working with the Akka team in order to transport and transform eventsourced into the akka-persistence module of Akka. Typesafe and Eligotech will collaborate to provide support for this module once it is released as part of Akka 2.3, which is due by the end of this year.

Knowing in real-time how your web applications are performing and what the bottlenecks are is crucial. New Relic is a cloud service that does just that by instrumenting applications and feeding analytics to its rich visualization dashboard. Typesafe is very excited that New Relic has added support for Play Framework 2.x for Java and Scala apps!

At Typesafe we have seen a ton of new Scala developer tools lately. One of the most exciting is Takipi. The core Takipi tool allows you to play "god" in your production Scala code. Recently Takipi released a new tool named Stackifier that deciphers Scala stack traces into a human readable form. Here is a more indepth description of these tools from Takipi...

Our partner VirtusLab, is doing a great deal to spread Scala adoption in Poland and surrounding areas, from providing software solutions that help solve business needs with Typesafe technologies, to launching and supporting ScalaCamp, a cyclic meeting about Scala programming languages and Scala-based projects. Founder Rafa? Pokrywka puts the focus on the business benefits that arise from new technology, and differentiates ScalaCamp from other meetups by zeroing in on innovative and tactical ways companies can use Scala, Akka and Play Framework in the real world.

From the blog

While Reactive application development is off to a roaring start and becoming mainstream, this leads to demands on Operations that are simply not met by yesterday’s software architectures and technologies. The pressure facing enterprises to manage resilient, responsive systems is brutal, yet most existing technologies available today are not designed to deploy and manage Reactive systems running on clusters. It’s due to this fact that Operations face a higher risk of downtime by using inappropriate tools/practices at a time when being unavailable is more costly than ever. So why is this happening? Well, it's not 2005 anymore–and why that's a problem for Operations is explained here...

Ten months ago we posted about architectural changes to Typesafe Activator. After a few a lot of yak shaves, side projects, and detours, we have Activator 1.3.0 based on sbt server, a new setup where multiple clients can share the same instance of sbt. sbt server is also available in ABI-stable protocol-stable form for other clients (IDEs, command line, desktop status icon, whatever you can think of) to try out.